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[ProSense]

Republicans: A Prose Poem

by Eliot Weinberger
September 2004


"They hate our friends. They hate our values. They hate democracy and freedom, and individual liberty."
—President George W. Bush

"I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators."
—Vice President Dick Cheney

Dan Ford, "The Burning of the National Library, Baghdad; Troops Observing Looters" (2004), oil on canvas. Courtesy of Roebling Hall.

Thomas Donahue, Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is a Republican. He said the newly unemployed should "stop whining."

Alfonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is a Republican. He explained the enormous cuts to low-income housing by saying, "Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition."

Rick Santorum, Senator from Pennsylvania, is a Republican. He defended cuts to child care and welfare by suggesting that "making people struggle a little bit is not necessarily the worst thing."


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http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/rnc/sept04/prosepoem.html